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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1909
Page
9
A hotel guest and the manager discuss colorful California street names. Indio Muerto translates to dead Indian, and Salsipuedes inspired the hospital’s name after its hillside location. The scene ends with the question of the word’s meaning.
A four year old lady in waiting’s daughter recalls a lunch with Queen Victoria. The child swore she was polite, but the queen allegedly used a chicken bone, prompting the girl to compare the queen’s manners to her mother’s.
Chicago March 15 markets show wheat May trading near 1.16 to 1.17 per bushel with July futures around 1.04. Corn May around 68 cents, oats May about 55 cents, pork and lard futures steady to slightly higher, hogs down 10 to 15 cents but top at 6.75. Cash grain prices list multiple wheat and corn grades, butter eggs and vegetables with varied regional quotes.
Chicago March 15 cattle receipts 26000 steady to shade lower with ranges for beves Texans westerners stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves and hogs receipts 64000 down about 10 cents with price bands from 6.20 to 6.80 for various hog grades sheep receipts 25900 weak 19 cents lower with lambs at 5.75 to 7.00.
Butter firm at creameries 22 to 28 cents and dairies 20 to 25 cents. Eggs steady firsts 17 4 cents and prime firsts 18 4 cents. Market location Chicago March 15.
Chicago poultry prices hold steady on March 15 with turkeys at 17 cents per pound, chickens at 14 and a half cents, and springs at 15 cents.
Butter firmer with 5 200 receipts and varied creamery product quotes from officials and factory lines. Eggs also firm with 16 400 receipts. firsts at 19 cents and seconds at 18 cents.
New York March 15 Poultry dressed steady with fowls selling at 14 to 16 cents per pound and turkeys at 16 to 23 cents per pound.
Reports show New York on March 15 with Wheat May at 1.2036 and Corn 75 1 2 cents. St Louis on March 15 lists Wheat May at 1.131 and Corn May at 66 2/3 cents and Oats May at 54 1/2 cents.
Peoria market notes corn No 3 quoted at 65 4 cents.
Local market notes list grain prices for corn oats wheat and rye with retail and wholesale ranges. Corn market 55 60 cents oats 45 cents wheat 85 to 90 cents cracked corn 1.70 per cwt. Popcorn on ear 1.15 to 1.25 new ewt shelled 1.40 to 1.75 per cwt. Pop corn per peck 80 cents Bran 1.30 per cwt Oil meal 1.75 Shorts 1.35 to 1.40 Barley per bushel 7Ec Thor? Ches feed 1.70 Hay 7.00 8.00 per ton Local live stock market shows shippers pay Choice heavy 6.25 Choice light 6.10 Rough heavy 5.75 Stags 5.50.
Mr. Jackson recently moved to the suburb sees neighbors rush to aid as his house burns. He asks one to run for help, but the other cannot yell due to laryngitis. He then tells them to fetch chairs and enjoy the blaze, a humorous twist recorded by Youth's Companion.
A jeweler recalls a string of complaints from a woman who winds a watch incorrectly due to being left handed. He had instructed winding at the same hour daily, but she insisted it ran down. After a third visit he asked to see how she wound it and discovered the improper, reversed direction.
A portrait titled The Vagabonds shows two bohemian Irish terriers with one yawning at spectators. Earl had to yawn herself to get the dog to sit for the painting, and viewers reportedly yawned along as the exhibit drew crowds.
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